HITOMI (ASTRO-H) X-ray astronomy satellite

Tadayuki Takahashi; Motohide Kokubun; Kazuhisa Mitsuda; Richard L. Kelley; Takaya Ohashi; Felix Aharonian; Hiroki Akamatsu; Fumie Akimoto; Steven W. Allen; Naohisa Anabuki; Lorella Angelini; Keith Arnaud; Makoto Asai; Marc Audard; Hisamitsu Awaki; Magnus Axelsson; Philipp Azzarello; Chris Baluta; Aya Bamba; Nobutaka Bando; Marshall W. Bautz; Thomas Bialas; Roger Blandford; Kevin Boyce; Laura W. Brenneman; Gregory V. Brown; Esra Bulbul; Edward M. Cackett; Edgar Canavan; Maria Chernyakova; Meng P. Chiao; Paolo S. Coppi; Elisa Costantini; Steve O' Dell; Michael DiPirro; Chris Done; Tadayasu Dotani; John Doty; Ken Ebisawa; Megan E. Eckart; Teruaki Enoto; Yuichiro Ezoe; Andrew C. Fabian; Carlo Ferrigno; Adam R. Foster; Ryuichi Fujimoto; Yasushi Fukazawa; Stefan Funk; Akihiro Furuzawa; Massimiliano Galeazzi; Luigi C. Gallo; Poshak Gandhi; Kirk Gilmore; Margherita Giustini; Andrea Goldwurm; Liyi Gu; Matteo Guainazzi; Daniel Haas; Yoshito Haba; Kouichi Hagino; Kenji Hamaguchi; Ilana M. Harrus; Isamu Hatsukade; Takayuki Hayashi; Katsuhiro Hayashi; Kiyoshi Hayashida; Jan Willem Den Herder; Junko S. Hiraga; Kazuyuki Hirose; Ann Hornschemeier; Akio Hoshino; John P. Hughes; Yuto Ichinohe; Ryo Iizuka; Hajime Inoue; Yoshiyuki Inoue; Kazunori Ishibashi; Manabu Ishida; Kumi Ishikawa; Kosei Ishimura; Yoshitaka Ishisaki; Masayuki Itoh; Masachika Iwai; Naoko Iwata; Naoko Iyomoto; Chris Jewell; Jelle Kaastra; Tim Kallman; Tsuneyoshi Kamae; Erin Kara; Jun Kataoka; Satoru Katsuda; Junichiro Katsuta; Madoka Kawaharada; Nobuyuki Kawai; Taro Kawano; Shigeo Kawasaki; Dmitry Khangulyan; Caroline A. Kilbourne; Mark Kimball; Ashley King; Takao Kitaguchi; Shunji Kitamoto; Tetsu Kitayama; Takayoshi Kohmura; Saori Konami; Tatsuro Kosaka; Alex Koujelev; Katsuji Koyama; Shu Koyama; Peter Kretschmar; Hans A. Krimm; Aya Kubota; Hideyo Kunieda; Philippe Laurent; Shiu Hang Lee; Maurice A. Leutenegger; Olivier Limousin; Michael Loewenstein; Knox S. Long; David Lumb; Greg Madejski; Yoshitomo Maeda; Daniel Maier; Kazuo Makishima; Maxim Markevitch; Candace Masters; Hironori Matsumoto; Kyoko Matsushita; Dan McCammon; Daniel Mcguinness; Brian R. McNamara; Missagh Mehdipour; Joseph Miko; Eric D. Miller; Jon M. Miller; Shin Mineshige; Kenji Minesugi; Ikuyuki Mitsuishi; Takuya Miyazawa; Tsunefumi Mizuno; Hideyuki Mori; Koji Mori; Franco Moroso; Harvey Moseley; Theodore Muench; Koji Mukai; Hiroshi Murakami; Toshio Murakami; Richard F. Mushotzky; Housei Nagano; Ryo Nagino; Takao Nakagawa; Hiroshi Nakajima; Takeshi Nakamori; Toshio Nakano; Shinya Nakashima; Kazuhiro Nakazawa; Yoshiharu Namba; Chikara Natsukari; Yusuke Nishioka; Kumiko K. Nobukawa; Masayoshi Nobukawa; Hirofumi Noda; Masaharu Nomachi; Hirokazu Odaka; Hiroyuki Ogawa; Mina Ogawa; Keiji Ogi; Masanori Ohno; Masayuki Ohta; Takashi Okajima; Atsushi Okamoto; Tsuyoshi Okazaki; Naomi Ota; Masanobu Ozaki; Frits Paerels; Stéphane Paltani; Arvind Parmar; Robert Petre; Ciro Pinto; Jelle De Plaa; Martin Pohl; James Pontius; Frederick S. Porter; Katja Pottschmidt; Brian Ramsey; Christopher Reynolds; Helen Russell; Samar Safi-Harb; Shinya Saito; Kazuhiro Sakai; Shin Ichiro Sakai; Hiroaki Sameshima; Toru Sasaki; Goro Sato; Kosuke Sato; Rie Sato; Yoichi Sato; Makoto Sawada; Norbert Schartel; Peter J. Serlemitsos; Hiromi Seta; Yasuko Shibano; Maki Shida; Megumi Shidatsu; Takanobu Shimada; Keisuke Shinozaki; Peter Shirron; Aurora Simionescu; Cynthia Simmons; Randall K. Smith; Gary Sneiderman; Yang Soong; Łukasz Stawarz; Yasuharu Sugawara; Satoshi Sugita; Hiroyuki Sugita; Andrew Szymkowiak; Hiroyasu Tajima; Hiromitsu Takahashi; Takeda Shin'ichiro; Yoh Takei; Toru Tamagawa; Takayuki Tamura; Keisuke Tamura; Takaaki Tanaka; Yasuo Tanaka; Yasuyuki T. Tanaka; Makoto S. Tashiro; Yuzuru Tawara; Yukikatsu Terada; Yuichi Terashima; Francesco Tombesi; Hiroshi Tomida; Yohko Tsuboi; Masahiro Tsujimoto; Hiroshi Tsunemi; Takeshi Go Tsuru; Hiroyuki Uchida; Hideki Uchiyama; Yasunobu Uchiyama; Shutaro Ueda; Yoshihiro Ueda; Shiro Ueno; Uno Shin'ichiro; C. Megan Urry; Eugenio Ursino; Cor P. De Vries; Atsushi Wada; Shin Watanabe; Tomomi Watanabe; Norbert Werner; Daniel R. Wik; Dan R. Wilkins; Brian J. Williams; Shinya Yamada; Takahiro Yamada; Hiroya Yamaguchi; Kazutaka Yamaoka; Noriko Y. Yamasaki; Makoto Yamauchi; Shigeo Yamauchi; Tahir Yaqoob; Yoichi Yatsu; Daisuke Yonetoku; Atsumasa Yoshida; Takayuki Yuasa; Irina Zhuravleva; Abderahmen Zoghbi

doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402

HITOMI (ASTRO-H) X-ray astronomy satellite

Tadayuki Takahashi, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard L. Kelley, Takaya Ohashi, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, Steven W. Allen, Naohisa Anabuki, Lorella Angelini, Keith Arnaud, Makoto Asai, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Magnus Axelsson, Philipp Azzarello, Chris Baluta, Aya Bamba, Nobutaka BandoMarshall W. Bautz, Thomas Bialas, Roger Blandford, Kevin Boyce, Laura W. Brenneman, Gregory V. Brown, Esra Bulbul, Edward M. Cackett, Edgar Canavan, Maria Chernyakova, Meng P. Chiao, Paolo S. Coppi, Elisa Costantini, Steve O' Dell, Michael DiPirro, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, John Doty, Ken Ebisawa, Megan E. Eckart, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, Andrew C. Fabian, Carlo Ferrigno, Adam R. Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Stefan Funk, Akihiro Furuzawa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Luigi C. Gallo, Poshak Gandhi, Kirk Gilmore, Margherita Giustini, Andrea Goldwurm, Liyi Gu, Matteo Guainazzi, Daniel Haas, Yoshito Haba, Kouichi Hagino, Kenji Hamaguchi, Ilana M. Harrus, Isamu Hatsukade, Takayuki Hayashi, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jan Willem Den Herder, Junko S. Hiraga, Kazuyuki Hirose, Ann Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, John P. Hughes, Yuto Ichinohe, Ryo Iizuka, Hajime Inoue, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Kazunori Ishibashi, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Kosei Ishimura, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masayuki Itoh, Masachika Iwai, Naoko Iwata, Naoko Iyomoto, Chris Jewell, Jelle Kaastra, Tim Kallman, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Erin Kara, Jun Kataoka, Satoru Katsuda, Junichiro Katsuta, Madoka Kawaharada, Nobuyuki Kawai, Taro Kawano, Shigeo Kawasaki, Dmitry Khangulyan, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Mark Kimball, Ashley King, Takao Kitaguchi, Shunji Kitamoto, Tetsu Kitayama, Takayoshi Kohmura, Saori Konami, Tatsuro Kosaka, Alex Koujelev, Katsuji Koyama, Shu Koyama, Peter Kretschmar, Hans A. Krimm, Aya Kubota, Hideyo Kunieda, Philippe Laurent, Shiu Hang Lee, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Olivier Limousin, Michael Loewenstein, Knox S. Long, David Lumb, Greg Madejski, Yoshitomo Maeda, Daniel Maier, Kazuo Makishima, Maxim Markevitch, Candace Masters, Hironori Matsumoto, Kyoko Matsushita, Dan McCammon, Daniel Mcguinness, Brian R. McNamara, Missagh Mehdipour, Joseph Miko, Eric D. Miller, Jon M. Miller, Shin Mineshige, Kenji Minesugi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takuya Miyazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hideyuki Mori, Koji Mori, Franco Moroso, Harvey Moseley, Theodore Muench, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Toshio Murakami, Richard F. Mushotzky, Housei Nagano, Ryo Nagino, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takeshi Nakamori, Toshio Nakano, Shinya Nakashima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yoshiharu Namba, Chikara Natsukari, Yusuke Nishioka, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Masaharu Nomachi, Hirokazu Odaka, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Mina Ogawa, Keiji Ogi, Masanori Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Takashi Okajima, Atsushi Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Naomi Ota, Masanobu Ozaki, Frits Paerels, Stéphane Paltani, Arvind Parmar, Robert Petre, Ciro Pinto, Jelle De Plaa, Martin Pohl, James Pontius, Frederick S. Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Brian Ramsey, Christopher Reynolds, Helen Russell, Samar Safi-Harb, Shinya Saito, Kazuhiro Sakai, Shin Ichiro Sakai, Hiroaki Sameshima, Toru Sasaki, Goro Sato, Kosuke Sato, Rie Sato, Yoichi Sato, Makoto Sawada, Norbert Schartel, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Hiromi Seta, Yasuko Shibano, Maki Shida, Megumi Shidatsu, Takanobu Shimada, Keisuke Shinozaki, Peter Shirron, Aurora Simionescu, Cynthia Simmons, Randall K. Smith, Gary Sneiderman, Yang Soong, Łukasz Stawarz, Yasuharu Sugawara, Satoshi Sugita, Hiroyuki Sugita, Andrew Szymkowiak, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Takeda Shin'ichiro, Yoh Takei, Toru Tamagawa, Takayuki Tamura, Keisuke Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasuo Tanaka, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Makoto S. Tashiro, Yuzuru Tawara, Yukikatsu Terada, Yuichi Terashima, Francesco Tombesi, Hiroshi Tomida, Yohko Tsuboi, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Shutaro Ueda, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shiro Ueno, Uno Shin'ichiro, C. Megan Urry, Eugenio Ursino, Cor P. De Vries, Atsushi Wada, Shin Watanabe, Tomomi Watanabe, Norbert Werner, Daniel R. Wik, Dan R. Wilkins, Brian J. Williams, Shinya Yamada, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Makoto Yamauchi, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tahir Yaqoob, Yoichi Yatsu, Daisuke Yonetoku, Atsumasa Yoshida, Takayuki Yuasa, Irina Zhuravleva, Abderahmen Zoghbi

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Abstract

The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft x-rays to gamma rays. After a successful launch on February 17, 2016, the spacecraft lost its function on March 26, 2016, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the onboard instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month.

Original language	English
Article number	021402
Journal	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402
Publication status	Published - 2018 Apr 1

Keywords

Gamma ray
Gamma-ray astronomy
Hard x-ray
Microcalorimeter
X-ray
X-ray astronomy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Control and Systems Engineering
Instrumentation
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mechanical Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

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Takahashi, T., Kokubun, M., Mitsuda, K., Kelley, R. L., Ohashi, T., Aharonian, F., Akamatsu, H., Akimoto, F., Allen, S. W., Anabuki, N., Angelini, L., Arnaud, K., Asai, M., Audard, M., Awaki, H., Axelsson, M., Azzarello, P., Baluta, C., Bamba, A., ... Zoghbi, A. (2018). HITOMI (ASTRO-H) X-ray astronomy satellite. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 4(2), [021402]. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402

Takahashi, T, Kokubun, M, Mitsuda, K, Kelley, RL, Ohashi, T, Aharonian, F, Akamatsu, H, Akimoto, F, Allen, SW, Anabuki, N, Angelini, L, Arnaud, K, Asai, M, Audard, M, Awaki, H, Axelsson, M, Azzarello, P, Baluta, C, Bamba, A, Bando, N, Bautz, MW, Bialas, T, Blandford, R, Boyce, K, Brenneman, LW, Brown, GV, Bulbul, E, Cackett, EM, Canavan, E, Chernyakova, M, Chiao, MP, Coppi, PS, Costantini, E, O' Dell, S, DiPirro, M, Done, C, Dotani, T, Doty, J, Ebisawa, K, Eckart, ME, Enoto, T, Ezoe, Y, Fabian, AC, Ferrigno, C, Foster, AR, Fujimoto, R, Fukazawa, Y, Funk, S, Furuzawa, A, Galeazzi, M, Gallo, LC, Gandhi, P, Gilmore, K, Giustini, M, Goldwurm, A, Gu, L, Guainazzi, M, Haas, D, Haba, Y, Hagino, K, Hamaguchi, K, Harrus, IM, Hatsukade, I, Hayashi, T, Hayashi, K, Hayashida, K, Den Herder, JW, Hiraga, JS, Hirose, K, Hornschemeier, A, Hoshino, A, Hughes, JP, Ichinohe, Y, Iizuka, R, Inoue, H, Inoue, Y, Ishibashi, K, Ishida, M, Ishikawa, K, Ishimura, K, Ishisaki, Y, Itoh, M, Iwai, M, Iwata, N, Iyomoto, N, Jewell, C, Kaastra, J, Kallman, T, Kamae, T, Kara, E, Kataoka, J, Katsuda, S, Katsuta, J, Kawaharada, M, Kawai, N, Kawano, T, Kawasaki, S, Khangulyan, D, Kilbourne, CA, Kimball, M, King, A, Kitaguchi, T, Kitamoto, S, Kitayama, T, Kohmura, T, Konami, S, Kosaka, T, Koujelev, A, Koyama, K, Koyama, S, Kretschmar, P, Krimm, HA, Kubota, A, Kunieda, H, Laurent, P, Lee, SH, Leutenegger, MA, Limousin, O, Loewenstein, M, Long, KS, Lumb, D, Madejski, G, Maeda, Y, Maier, D, Makishima, K, Markevitch, M, Masters, C, Matsumoto, H, Matsushita, K, McCammon, D, Mcguinness, D, McNamara, BR, Mehdipour, M, Miko, J, Miller, ED, Miller, JM, Mineshige, S, Minesugi, K, Mitsuishi, I, Miyazawa, T, Mizuno, T, Mori, H, Mori, K, Moroso, F, Moseley, H, Muench, T, Mukai, K, Murakami, H, Murakami, T, Mushotzky, RF, Nagano, H, Nagino, R, Nakagawa, T, Nakajima, H, Nakamori, T, Nakano, T, Nakashima, S, Nakazawa, K, Namba, Y, Natsukari, C, Nishioka, Y, Nobukawa, KK, Nobukawa, M, Noda, H, Nomachi, M, Odaka, H, Ogawa, H, Ogawa, M, Ogi, K, Ohno, M, Ohta, M, Okajima, T, Okamoto, A, Okazaki, T, Ota, N, Ozaki, M, Paerels, F, Paltani, S, Parmar, A, Petre, R, Pinto, C, De Plaa, J, Pohl, M, Pontius, J, Porter, FS, Pottschmidt, K, Ramsey, B, Reynolds, C, Russell, H, Safi-Harb, S, Saito, S, Sakai, K, Sakai, SI, Sameshima, H, Sasaki, T, Sato, G, Sato, K, Sato, R, Sato, Y, Sawada, M, Schartel, N, Serlemitsos, PJ, Seta, H, Shibano, Y, Shida, M, Shidatsu, M, Shimada, T, Shinozaki, K, Shirron, P, Simionescu, A, Simmons, C, Smith, RK, Sneiderman, G, Soong, Y, Stawarz, Ł, Sugawara, Y, Sugita, S, Sugita, H, Szymkowiak, A, Tajima, H, Takahashi, H, Shin'ichiro, T, Takei, Y, Tamagawa, T, Tamura, T, Tamura, K, Tanaka, T, Tanaka, Y, Tanaka, YT, Tashiro, MS, Tawara, Y, Terada, Y, Terashima, Y, Tombesi, F, Tomida, H, Tsuboi, Y, Tsujimoto, M, Tsunemi, H, Tsuru, TG, Uchida, H, Uchiyama, H, Uchiyama, Y, Ueda, S, Ueda, Y, Ueno, S, Shin'ichiro, U, Megan Urry, C, Ursino, E, De Vries, CP, Wada, A, Watanabe, S, Watanabe, T, Werner, N, Wik, DR, Wilkins, DR, Williams, BJ, Yamada, S, Yamada, T, Yamaguchi, H, Yamaoka, K, Yamasaki, NY, Yamauchi, M, Yamauchi, S, Yaqoob, T, Yatsu, Y, Yonetoku, D, Yoshida, A, Yuasa, T, Zhuravleva, I & Zoghbi, A 2018, 'HITOMI (ASTRO-H) X-ray astronomy satellite', Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 4, no. 2, 021402. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402

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abstract = "The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft x-rays to gamma rays. After a successful launch on February 17, 2016, the spacecraft lost its function on March 26, 2016, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the onboard instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month.",

keywords = "Gamma ray, Gamma-ray astronomy, Hard x-ray, Microcalorimeter, X-ray, X-ray astronomy",

author = "Tadayuki Takahashi and Motohide Kokubun and Kazuhisa Mitsuda and Kelley, {Richard L.} and Takaya Ohashi and Felix Aharonian and Hiroki Akamatsu and Fumie Akimoto and Allen, {Steven W.} and Naohisa Anabuki and Lorella Angelini and Keith Arnaud and Makoto Asai and Marc Audard and Hisamitsu Awaki and Magnus Axelsson and Philipp Azzarello and Chris Baluta and Aya Bamba and Nobutaka Bando and Bautz, {Marshall W.} and Thomas Bialas and Roger Blandford and Kevin Boyce and Brenneman, {Laura W.} and Brown, {Gregory V.} and Esra Bulbul and Cackett, {Edward M.} and Edgar Canavan and Maria Chernyakova and Chiao, {Meng P.} and Coppi, {Paolo S.} and Elisa Costantini and {O' Dell}, Steve and Michael DiPirro and Chris Done and Tadayasu Dotani and John Doty and Ken Ebisawa and Eckart, {Megan E.} and Teruaki Enoto and Yuichiro Ezoe and Fabian, {Andrew C.} and Carlo Ferrigno and Foster, {Adam R.} and Ryuichi Fujimoto and Yasushi Fukazawa and Stefan Funk and Akihiro Furuzawa and Massimiliano Galeazzi and Gallo, {Luigi C.} and Poshak Gandhi and Kirk Gilmore and Margherita Giustini and Andrea Goldwurm and Liyi Gu and Matteo Guainazzi and Daniel Haas and Yoshito Haba and Kouichi Hagino and Kenji Hamaguchi and Harrus, {Ilana M.} and Isamu Hatsukade and Takayuki Hayashi and Katsuhiro Hayashi and Kiyoshi Hayashida and {Den Herder}, {Jan Willem} and Hiraga, {Junko S.} and Kazuyuki Hirose and Ann Hornschemeier and Akio Hoshino and Hughes, {John P.} and Yuto Ichinohe and Ryo Iizuka and Hajime Inoue and Yoshiyuki Inoue and Kazunori Ishibashi and Manabu Ishida and Kumi Ishikawa and Kosei Ishimura and Yoshitaka Ishisaki and Masayuki Itoh and Masachika Iwai and Naoko Iwata and Naoko Iyomoto and Chris Jewell and Jelle Kaastra and Tim Kallman and Tsuneyoshi Kamae and Erin Kara and Jun Kataoka and Satoru Katsuda and Junichiro Katsuta and Madoka Kawaharada and Nobuyuki Kawai and Taro Kawano and Shigeo Kawasaki and Dmitry Khangulyan and Kilbourne, {Caroline A.} and Mark Kimball and Ashley King and Takao Kitaguchi and Shunji Kitamoto and Tetsu Kitayama and Takayoshi Kohmura and Saori Konami and Tatsuro Kosaka and Alex Koujelev and Katsuji Koyama and Shu Koyama and Peter Kretschmar and Krimm, {Hans A.} and Aya Kubota and Hideyo Kunieda and Philippe Laurent and Lee, {Shiu Hang} and Leutenegger, {Maurice A.} and Olivier Limousin and Michael Loewenstein and Long, {Knox S.} and David Lumb and Greg Madejski and Yoshitomo Maeda and Daniel Maier and Kazuo Makishima and Maxim Markevitch and Candace Masters and Hironori Matsumoto and Kyoko Matsushita and Dan McCammon and Daniel Mcguinness and McNamara, {Brian R.} and Missagh Mehdipour and Joseph Miko and Miller, {Eric D.} and Miller, {Jon M.} and Shin Mineshige and Kenji Minesugi and Ikuyuki Mitsuishi and Takuya Miyazawa and Tsunefumi Mizuno and Hideyuki Mori and Koji Mori and Franco Moroso and Harvey Moseley and Theodore Muench and Koji Mukai and Hiroshi Murakami and Toshio Murakami and Mushotzky, {Richard F.} and Housei Nagano and Ryo Nagino and Takao Nakagawa and Hiroshi Nakajima and Takeshi Nakamori and Toshio Nakano and Shinya Nakashima and Kazuhiro Nakazawa and Yoshiharu Namba and Chikara Natsukari and Yusuke Nishioka and Nobukawa, {Kumiko K.} and Masayoshi Nobukawa and Hirofumi Noda and Masaharu Nomachi and Hirokazu Odaka and Hiroyuki Ogawa and Mina Ogawa and Keiji Ogi and Masanori Ohno and Masayuki Ohta and Takashi Okajima and Atsushi Okamoto and Tsuyoshi Okazaki and Naomi Ota and Masanobu Ozaki and Frits Paerels and St{\'e}phane Paltani and Arvind Parmar and Robert Petre and Ciro Pinto and {De Plaa}, Jelle and Martin Pohl and James Pontius and Porter, {Frederick S.} and Katja Pottschmidt and Brian Ramsey and Christopher Reynolds and Helen Russell and Samar Safi-Harb and Shinya Saito and Kazuhiro Sakai and Sakai, {Shin Ichiro} and Hiroaki Sameshima and Toru Sasaki and Goro Sato and Kosuke Sato and Rie Sato and Yoichi Sato and Makoto Sawada and Norbert Schartel and Serlemitsos, {Peter J.} and Hiromi Seta and Yasuko Shibano and Maki Shida and Megumi Shidatsu and Takanobu Shimada and Keisuke Shinozaki and Peter Shirron and Aurora Simionescu and Cynthia Simmons and Smith, {Randall K.} and Gary Sneiderman and Yang Soong and {\L}ukasz Stawarz and Yasuharu Sugawara and Satoshi Sugita and Hiroyuki Sugita and Andrew Szymkowiak and Hiroyasu Tajima and Hiromitsu Takahashi and Takeda Shin'ichiro and Yoh Takei and Toru Tamagawa and Takayuki Tamura and Keisuke Tamura and Takaaki Tanaka and Yasuo Tanaka and Tanaka, {Yasuyuki T.} and Tashiro, {Makoto S.} and Yuzuru Tawara and Yukikatsu Terada and Yuichi Terashima and Francesco Tombesi and Hiroshi Tomida and Yohko Tsuboi and Masahiro Tsujimoto and Hiroshi Tsunemi and Tsuru, {Takeshi Go} and Hiroyuki Uchida and Hideki Uchiyama and Yasunobu Uchiyama and Shutaro Ueda and Yoshihiro Ueda and Shiro Ueno and Uno Shin'ichiro and {Megan Urry}, C. and Eugenio Ursino and {De Vries}, {Cor P.} and Atsushi Wada and Shin Watanabe and Tomomi Watanabe and Norbert Werner and Wik, {Daniel R.} and Wilkins, {Dan R.} and Williams, {Brian J.} and Shinya Yamada and Takahiro Yamada and Hiroya Yamaguchi and Kazutaka Yamaoka and Yamasaki, {Noriko Y.} and Makoto Yamauchi and Shigeo Yamauchi and Tahir Yaqoob and Yoichi Yatsu and Daisuke Yonetoku and Atsumasa Yoshida and Takayuki Yuasa and Irina Zhuravleva and Abderahmen Zoghbi",

note = "Funding Information: We thank the support from the JSPS Core-to-Core Program. We acknowledge all the JAXA members who have contributed to the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) project. All U.S. members gratefully acknowledge support through the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Stanford and SLAC members acknowledge support via DoE contract to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory No. DE-AC3-76SF00515. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DoE by LLNL under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. Support from the European Space Agency is gratefully acknowledged. French members acknowledge support from the Centre National d'{\'E}tudes Spatiales. SRON is supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Swiss team acknowledges support of the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. The Canadian Space Agency is acknowledged for the support of Canadian members. We acknowledge support from JSPS/ MEXT KAKENHI Grant Nos. JP15H00773, JP15H00785, JP15H02070, JP15H02090, JP15H03639, JP15H03641, JP15H03642, JP15H05438, JP15H06896, JP15J02737, JP15K05107, JP15K17610, JP15K17657, JP16H00949, JP16H03983, JP16H06342, JP16J00548, JP16J02333, JP16K05295, JP16K05296, JP16K05300, JP16K05309, JP16K13787, JP16K17667, JP16K17672, JP16K17673, JP17H02864, JP17K05393, JP21659292, JP23340055, JP23340071, JP23540280, JP24105007, JP24244014, JP24540232, JP25105516, JP25109004, JP25247028, JP25287042, JP25400236, JP25800119, JP26109506, JP26220703, JP26400228, JP26610047, and JP26800102. The following NASA Grants are acknowledged: NNX15AC76G, NNX15AE16G, NNX15AK71G, NNX15AU54G, NNX15AW94G, and NNG15PP48P to Eureka Scientific. This work was partly supported by Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers, MEXT, Japan, and also by the Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists. H. Akamatsu acknowledges support of NWO via Veni grant. C. Done acknowledges STFC funding under Grant No. ST/L00075X/ 1. A. Fabian and C. Pinto acknowledge ERC Advanced Grant No. 340442. P. Gandhi acknowledges JAXA International Top Young Fellowship and UK Science and Technology Funding Council Grant No. ST/J003697/2. Y. Ichinohe, K. Nobukawa, and H. Seta are supported by the Research Fellow of JSPS for Young Scientists. N. Kawai is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “New Developments in Astrophysics Through Multimessenger Observations of Gravitational Wave Sources.” S. Kitamoto is partially supported by the MEXT Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2014 to 2018. B. McNamara and S. Safi-Harb acknowledge support from NSERC. T. Dotani, T. Takahashi, T. Tamagawa, M. Tsujimoto, and Y. Uchiyama acknowledge support from the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Nuclear Matter in Neutron Stars Investigated by Experiments and Astronomical Observations.” N. Werner is supported by the Lend{\"u}let LP2016-11 Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. D. Wilkins is supported by NASA through Einstein Fellowship Grant No. PF6-170160, awarded by the Chandra X-ray Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under Contract No NAS8-03060. We thank contributions by many companies, including in particular, NEC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry. We acknowledge contribution and support by late Henri Aarts and Koujun Yamashita. It is our honor that we could have worked together with them for long years. Contributions by Takashi Kubota and Atushi Harayama are gratefully acknowledged. We note that this mission is supported by dedicated works of many graduate and undergraduate students from universities and research institutes participated in this project. Finally, we thank the following engineers ADNET Systems: Michael Witthoeft, Kristin Rutkowski, Robert S. Hill, and Joseph Eggen; Wyle Information Systems: Andrew Sargent and Michael Dutka; SRON: Martin Frericks, Philippe Laubert, and Paul Lowes. Funding Information: We thank the support from the JSPS Core-to-Core Program. We acknowledge all the JAXA members who have contributed to the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) project. All U.S. members gratefully acknowledge support through the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Stanford and SLAC members acknowledge support via DoE contract to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory No. DE-AC3-76SF00515. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DoE by LLNL under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. Support from the European Space Agency is gratefully acknowledged. French members acknowledge support from the Centre National d{\textquoteright}{\'E}tudes Spatiales. SRON is supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Swiss team acknowledges support of the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. The Canadian Space Agency is acknowledged for the support of Canadian members. We acknowledge support from JSPS/ MEXT KAKENHI Grant Nos. JP15H00773, JP15H00785, JP15H02070, JP15H02090, JP15H03639, JP15H03641, JP15H03642, JP15H05438, JP15H06896, JP15J02737, JP15K05107, JP15K17610, JP15K17657, JP16H00949, JP16H03983, JP16H06342, JP16J00548, JP16J02333, JP16K05295, JP16K05296, JP16K05300, JP16K05309, JP16K13787, JP16K17667, JP16K17672, JP16K17673, JP17H02864, JP17K05393, JP21659292, JP23340055, JP23340071, JP23540280, JP24105007, JP24244014, JP24540232, JP25105516, JP25109004, JP25247028, JP25287042, JP25400236, JP25800119, JP26109506, JP26220703, JP26400228, JP26610047, and JP26800102. The following NASA Grants are acknowledged: NNX15AC76G, NNX15AE16G, NNX15AK71G, NNX15AU54G, NNX15AW94G, and NNG15PP48P to Eureka Scientific. This work was partly supported by Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers, MEXT, Japan, and also by the Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists. H. Akamatsu acknowledges support of NWO via Veni grant. C. Done acknowledges STFC funding under Grant No. ST/L00075X/ 1. A. Fabian and C. Pinto acknowledge ERC Advanced Grant No. 340442. P. Gandhi acknowledges JAXA International Top Young Fellowship and UK Science and Technology Funding Council Grant No. ST/J003697/2. Y. Ichinohe, K. Nobukawa, and H. Seta are supported by the Research Fellow of JSPS for Young Scientists. N. Kawai is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “New Developments in Astrophysics Through Multimessenger Observations of Gravitational Wave Sources.” S. Kitamoto is partially supported by the MEXT Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2014 to 2018. B. McNamara and S. Safi-Harb acknowledge support from NSERC. T. Dotani, T. Takahashi, T. Tamagawa, M. Tsujimoto, and Y. Uchiyama acknowledge support from the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Nuclear Matter in Neutron Stars Investigated by Experiments and Astronomical Observations.” N. Werner is supported by the Lend{\"u}let LP2016-11 Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. D. Wilkins is supported by NASA through Einstein Fellowship Grant No. PF6-170160, awarded by the Chandra X-ray Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under Contract No NAS8-03060. We thank contributions by many companies, including in particular, NEC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry. We acknowledge contribution and support by late Henri Aarts and Koujun Yamashita. It is our honor that we could have worked together with them for long years. Contributions by Takashi Kubota and Atushi Harayama are gratefully acknowledged. We note that this mission is supported by dedicated works of many graduate and undergraduate students from universities and research institutes participated in this project. Finally, we thank the following engineers ADNET Systems: Michael Witthoeft, Kristin Rutkowski, Robert S. Hill, and Joseph Eggen; Wyle Information Systems: Andrew Sargent and Michael Dutka; SRON: Martin Frericks, Philippe Laubert, and Paul Lowes. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Authors.",

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T1 - HITOMI (ASTRO-H) X-ray astronomy satellite

AU - Takahashi, Tadayuki

AU - Kokubun, Motohide

AU - Mitsuda, Kazuhisa

AU - Kelley, Richard L.

AU - Ohashi, Takaya

AU - Aharonian, Felix

AU - Akamatsu, Hiroki

AU - Akimoto, Fumie

AU - Allen, Steven W.

AU - Anabuki, Naohisa

AU - Angelini, Lorella

AU - Arnaud, Keith

AU - Asai, Makoto

AU - Audard, Marc

AU - Awaki, Hisamitsu

AU - Axelsson, Magnus

AU - Azzarello, Philipp

AU - Baluta, Chris

AU - Bamba, Aya

AU - Bando, Nobutaka

AU - Bautz, Marshall W.

AU - Bialas, Thomas

AU - Blandford, Roger

AU - Boyce, Kevin

AU - Brenneman, Laura W.

AU - Brown, Gregory V.

AU - Bulbul, Esra

AU - Cackett, Edward M.

AU - Canavan, Edgar

AU - Chernyakova, Maria

AU - Chiao, Meng P.

AU - Coppi, Paolo S.

AU - Costantini, Elisa

AU - O' Dell, Steve

AU - DiPirro, Michael

AU - Done, Chris

AU - Dotani, Tadayasu

AU - Doty, John

AU - Ebisawa, Ken

AU - Eckart, Megan E.

AU - Enoto, Teruaki

AU - Ezoe, Yuichiro

AU - Fabian, Andrew C.

AU - Ferrigno, Carlo

AU - Foster, Adam R.

AU - Fujimoto, Ryuichi

AU - Fukazawa, Yasushi

AU - Funk, Stefan

AU - Furuzawa, Akihiro

AU - Galeazzi, Massimiliano

AU - Gallo, Luigi C.

AU - Gandhi, Poshak

AU - Gilmore, Kirk

AU - Giustini, Margherita

AU - Goldwurm, Andrea

AU - Gu, Liyi

AU - Guainazzi, Matteo

AU - Haas, Daniel

AU - Haba, Yoshito

AU - Hagino, Kouichi

AU - Hamaguchi, Kenji

AU - Harrus, Ilana M.

AU - Hatsukade, Isamu

AU - Hayashi, Takayuki

AU - Hayashi, Katsuhiro

AU - Hayashida, Kiyoshi

AU - Den Herder, Jan Willem

AU - Hiraga, Junko S.

AU - Hirose, Kazuyuki

AU - Hornschemeier, Ann

AU - Hoshino, Akio

AU - Hughes, John P.

AU - Ichinohe, Yuto

AU - Iizuka, Ryo

AU - Inoue, Hajime

AU - Inoue, Yoshiyuki

AU - Ishibashi, Kazunori

AU - Ishida, Manabu

AU - Ishikawa, Kumi

AU - Ishimura, Kosei

AU - Ishisaki, Yoshitaka

AU - Itoh, Masayuki

AU - Iwai, Masachika

AU - Iwata, Naoko

AU - Iyomoto, Naoko

AU - Jewell, Chris

AU - Kaastra, Jelle

AU - Kallman, Tim

AU - Kamae, Tsuneyoshi

AU - Kara, Erin

AU - Kataoka, Jun

AU - Katsuda, Satoru

AU - Katsuta, Junichiro

AU - Kawaharada, Madoka

AU - Kawai, Nobuyuki

AU - Kawano, Taro

AU - Kawasaki, Shigeo

AU - Khangulyan, Dmitry

AU - Kilbourne, Caroline A.

AU - Kimball, Mark

AU - King, Ashley

AU - Kitaguchi, Takao

AU - Kitamoto, Shunji

AU - Kitayama, Tetsu

AU - Kohmura, Takayoshi

AU - Konami, Saori

AU - Kosaka, Tatsuro

AU - Koujelev, Alex

AU - Koyama, Katsuji

AU - Koyama, Shu

AU - Kretschmar, Peter

AU - Krimm, Hans A.

AU - Kubota, Aya

AU - Kunieda, Hideyo

AU - Laurent, Philippe

AU - Lee, Shiu Hang

AU - Leutenegger, Maurice A.

AU - Limousin, Olivier

AU - Loewenstein, Michael

AU - Long, Knox S.

AU - Lumb, David

AU - Madejski, Greg

AU - Maeda, Yoshitomo

AU - Maier, Daniel

AU - Makishima, Kazuo

AU - Markevitch, Maxim

AU - Masters, Candace

AU - Matsumoto, Hironori

AU - Matsushita, Kyoko

AU - McCammon, Dan

AU - Mcguinness, Daniel

AU - McNamara, Brian R.

AU - Mehdipour, Missagh

AU - Miko, Joseph

AU - Miller, Eric D.

AU - Miller, Jon M.

AU - Mineshige, Shin

AU - Minesugi, Kenji

AU - Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki

AU - Miyazawa, Takuya

AU - Mizuno, Tsunefumi

AU - Mori, Hideyuki

AU - Mori, Koji

AU - Moroso, Franco

AU - Moseley, Harvey

AU - Muench, Theodore

AU - Mukai, Koji

AU - Murakami, Hiroshi

AU - Murakami, Toshio

AU - Mushotzky, Richard F.

AU - Nagano, Housei

AU - Nagino, Ryo

AU - Nakagawa, Takao

AU - Nakajima, Hiroshi

AU - Nakamori, Takeshi

AU - Nakano, Toshio

AU - Nakashima, Shinya

AU - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro

AU - Namba, Yoshiharu

AU - Natsukari, Chikara

AU - Nishioka, Yusuke

AU - Nobukawa, Kumiko K.

AU - Nobukawa, Masayoshi

AU - Noda, Hirofumi

AU - Nomachi, Masaharu

AU - Odaka, Hirokazu

AU - Ogawa, Hiroyuki

AU - Ogawa, Mina

AU - Ogi, Keiji

AU - Ohno, Masanori

AU - Ohta, Masayuki

AU - Okajima, Takashi

AU - Okamoto, Atsushi

AU - Okazaki, Tsuyoshi

AU - Ota, Naomi

AU - Ozaki, Masanobu

AU - Paerels, Frits

AU - Paltani, Stéphane

AU - Parmar, Arvind

AU - Petre, Robert

AU - Pinto, Ciro

AU - De Plaa, Jelle

AU - Pohl, Martin

AU - Pontius, James

AU - Porter, Frederick S.

AU - Pottschmidt, Katja

AU - Ramsey, Brian

AU - Reynolds, Christopher

AU - Russell, Helen

AU - Safi-Harb, Samar

AU - Saito, Shinya

AU - Sakai, Kazuhiro

AU - Sakai, Shin Ichiro

AU - Sameshima, Hiroaki

AU - Sasaki, Toru

AU - Sato, Goro

AU - Sato, Kosuke

AU - Sato, Rie

AU - Sato, Yoichi

AU - Sawada, Makoto

AU - Schartel, Norbert

AU - Serlemitsos, Peter J.

AU - Seta, Hiromi

AU - Shibano, Yasuko

AU - Shida, Maki

AU - Shidatsu, Megumi

AU - Shimada, Takanobu

AU - Shinozaki, Keisuke

AU - Shirron, Peter

AU - Simionescu, Aurora

AU - Simmons, Cynthia

AU - Smith, Randall K.

AU - Sneiderman, Gary

AU - Soong, Yang

AU - Stawarz, Łukasz

AU - Sugawara, Yasuharu

AU - Sugita, Satoshi

AU - Sugita, Hiroyuki

AU - Szymkowiak, Andrew

AU - Tajima, Hiroyasu

AU - Takahashi, Hiromitsu

AU - Shin'ichiro, Takeda

AU - Takei, Yoh

AU - Tamagawa, Toru

AU - Tamura, Takayuki

AU - Tamura, Keisuke

AU - Tanaka, Takaaki

AU - Tanaka, Yasuo

AU - Tanaka, Yasuyuki T.

AU - Tashiro, Makoto S.

AU - Tawara, Yuzuru

AU - Terada, Yukikatsu

AU - Terashima, Yuichi

AU - Tombesi, Francesco

AU - Tomida, Hiroshi

AU - Tsuboi, Yohko

AU - Tsujimoto, Masahiro

AU - Tsunemi, Hiroshi

AU - Tsuru, Takeshi Go

AU - Uchida, Hiroyuki

AU - Uchiyama, Hideki

AU - Uchiyama, Yasunobu

AU - Ueda, Shutaro

AU - Ueda, Yoshihiro

AU - Ueno, Shiro

AU - Shin'ichiro, Uno

AU - Megan Urry, C.

AU - Ursino, Eugenio

AU - De Vries, Cor P.

AU - Wada, Atsushi

AU - Watanabe, Shin

AU - Watanabe, Tomomi

AU - Werner, Norbert

AU - Wik, Daniel R.

AU - Wilkins, Dan R.

AU - Williams, Brian J.

AU - Yamada, Shinya

AU - Yamada, Takahiro

AU - Yamaguchi, Hiroya

AU - Yamaoka, Kazutaka

AU - Yamasaki, Noriko Y.

AU - Yamauchi, Makoto

AU - Yamauchi, Shigeo

AU - Yaqoob, Tahir

AU - Yatsu, Yoichi

AU - Yonetoku, Daisuke

AU - Yoshida, Atsumasa

AU - Yuasa, Takayuki

AU - Zhuravleva, Irina

AU - Zoghbi, Abderahmen

N1 - Funding Information: We thank the support from the JSPS Core-to-Core Program. We acknowledge all the JAXA members who have contributed to the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) project. All U.S. members gratefully acknowledge support through the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Stanford and SLAC members acknowledge support via DoE contract to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory No. DE-AC3-76SF00515. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DoE by LLNL under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. Support from the European Space Agency is gratefully acknowledged. French members acknowledge support from the Centre National d'Études Spatiales. SRON is supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Swiss team acknowledges support of the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. The Canadian Space Agency is acknowledged for the support of Canadian members. We acknowledge support from JSPS/ MEXT KAKENHI Grant Nos. JP15H00773, JP15H00785, JP15H02070, JP15H02090, JP15H03639, JP15H03641, JP15H03642, JP15H05438, JP15H06896, JP15J02737, JP15K05107, JP15K17610, JP15K17657, JP16H00949, JP16H03983, JP16H06342, JP16J00548, JP16J02333, JP16K05295, JP16K05296, JP16K05300, JP16K05309, JP16K13787, JP16K17667, JP16K17672, JP16K17673, JP17H02864, JP17K05393, JP21659292, JP23340055, JP23340071, JP23540280, JP24105007, JP24244014, JP24540232, JP25105516, JP25109004, JP25247028, JP25287042, JP25400236, JP25800119, JP26109506, JP26220703, JP26400228, JP26610047, and JP26800102. The following NASA Grants are acknowledged: NNX15AC76G, NNX15AE16G, NNX15AK71G, NNX15AU54G, NNX15AW94G, and NNG15PP48P to Eureka Scientific. This work was partly supported by Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers, MEXT, Japan, and also by the Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists. H. Akamatsu acknowledges support of NWO via Veni grant. C. Done acknowledges STFC funding under Grant No. ST/L00075X/ 1. A. Fabian and C. Pinto acknowledge ERC Advanced Grant No. 340442. P. Gandhi acknowledges JAXA International Top Young Fellowship and UK Science and Technology Funding Council Grant No. ST/J003697/2. Y. Ichinohe, K. Nobukawa, and H. Seta are supported by the Research Fellow of JSPS for Young Scientists. N. Kawai is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “New Developments in Astrophysics Through Multimessenger Observations of Gravitational Wave Sources.” S. Kitamoto is partially supported by the MEXT Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2014 to 2018. B. McNamara and S. Safi-Harb acknowledge support from NSERC. T. Dotani, T. Takahashi, T. Tamagawa, M. Tsujimoto, and Y. Uchiyama acknowledge support from the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Nuclear Matter in Neutron Stars Investigated by Experiments and Astronomical Observations.” N. Werner is supported by the Lendület LP2016-11 Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. D. Wilkins is supported by NASA through Einstein Fellowship Grant No. PF6-170160, awarded by the Chandra X-ray Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under Contract No NAS8-03060. We thank contributions by many companies, including in particular, NEC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry. We acknowledge contribution and support by late Henri Aarts and Koujun Yamashita. It is our honor that we could have worked together with them for long years. Contributions by Takashi Kubota and Atushi Harayama are gratefully acknowledged. We note that this mission is supported by dedicated works of many graduate and undergraduate students from universities and research institutes participated in this project. Finally, we thank the following engineers ADNET Systems: Michael Witthoeft, Kristin Rutkowski, Robert S. Hill, and Joseph Eggen; Wyle Information Systems: Andrew Sargent and Michael Dutka; SRON: Martin Frericks, Philippe Laubert, and Paul Lowes. Funding Information: We thank the support from the JSPS Core-to-Core Program. We acknowledge all the JAXA members who have contributed to the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) project. All U.S. members gratefully acknowledge support through the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Stanford and SLAC members acknowledge support via DoE contract to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory No. DE-AC3-76SF00515. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DoE by LLNL under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. Support from the European Space Agency is gratefully acknowledged. French members acknowledge support from the Centre National d’Études Spatiales. SRON is supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Swiss team acknowledges support of the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. The Canadian Space Agency is acknowledged for the support of Canadian members. We acknowledge support from JSPS/ MEXT KAKENHI Grant Nos. JP15H00773, JP15H00785, JP15H02070, JP15H02090, JP15H03639, JP15H03641, JP15H03642, JP15H05438, JP15H06896, JP15J02737, JP15K05107, JP15K17610, JP15K17657, JP16H00949, JP16H03983, JP16H06342, JP16J00548, JP16J02333, JP16K05295, JP16K05296, JP16K05300, JP16K05309, JP16K13787, JP16K17667, JP16K17672, JP16K17673, JP17H02864, JP17K05393, JP21659292, JP23340055, JP23340071, JP23540280, JP24105007, JP24244014, JP24540232, JP25105516, JP25109004, JP25247028, JP25287042, JP25400236, JP25800119, JP26109506, JP26220703, JP26400228, JP26610047, and JP26800102. The following NASA Grants are acknowledged: NNX15AC76G, NNX15AE16G, NNX15AK71G, NNX15AU54G, NNX15AW94G, and NNG15PP48P to Eureka Scientific. This work was partly supported by Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers, MEXT, Japan, and also by the Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists. H. Akamatsu acknowledges support of NWO via Veni grant. C. Done acknowledges STFC funding under Grant No. ST/L00075X/ 1. A. Fabian and C. Pinto acknowledge ERC Advanced Grant No. 340442. P. Gandhi acknowledges JAXA International Top Young Fellowship and UK Science and Technology Funding Council Grant No. ST/J003697/2. Y. Ichinohe, K. Nobukawa, and H. Seta are supported by the Research Fellow of JSPS for Young Scientists. N. Kawai is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “New Developments in Astrophysics Through Multimessenger Observations of Gravitational Wave Sources.” S. Kitamoto is partially supported by the MEXT Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2014 to 2018. B. McNamara and S. Safi-Harb acknowledge support from NSERC. T. Dotani, T. Takahashi, T. Tamagawa, M. Tsujimoto, and Y. Uchiyama acknowledge support from the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Nuclear Matter in Neutron Stars Investigated by Experiments and Astronomical Observations.” N. Werner is supported by the Lendület LP2016-11 Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. D. Wilkins is supported by NASA through Einstein Fellowship Grant No. PF6-170160, awarded by the Chandra X-ray Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under Contract No NAS8-03060. We thank contributions by many companies, including in particular, NEC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry. We acknowledge contribution and support by late Henri Aarts and Koujun Yamashita. It is our honor that we could have worked together with them for long years. Contributions by Takashi Kubota and Atushi Harayama are gratefully acknowledged. We note that this mission is supported by dedicated works of many graduate and undergraduate students from universities and research institutes participated in this project. Finally, we thank the following engineers ADNET Systems: Michael Witthoeft, Kristin Rutkowski, Robert S. Hill, and Joseph Eggen; Wyle Information Systems: Andrew Sargent and Michael Dutka; SRON: Martin Frericks, Philippe Laubert, and Paul Lowes. Publisher Copyright: © The Authors.

PY - 2018/4/1

Y1 - 2018/4/1

N2 - The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft x-rays to gamma rays. After a successful launch on February 17, 2016, the spacecraft lost its function on March 26, 2016, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the onboard instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month.

AB - The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft x-rays to gamma rays. After a successful launch on February 17, 2016, the spacecraft lost its function on March 26, 2016, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the onboard instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month.

KW - Gamma ray

KW - Gamma-ray astronomy

KW - Hard x-ray

KW - Microcalorimeter

KW - X-ray

KW - X-ray astronomy

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